Five Years of Marsy's Law: Building Belief in Justice That Sees People

Five Years of Marsy's Law: Building Belief in Justice That Sees People

A victim of domestic violence who knows she has the constitutional right to be notified if her abuser is released. Parents whose murdered child is honored through their right to be consulted by the prosecutor before a plea deal is offered. A survivor standing in court, reading her victim impact statement aloud— able to speak her truth and be heard by the judge, the defendant, and the community. These moments occur daily in Kentucky. But before 2…

Laws are made for the people, people are not made for laws

In the pursuit of procedural justice and constitutional integrity, this essay seeks to expose the systemic injustices inherent in Pakistan’s e-challan regime – a system that, while cloaked in the rhetoric of modernization and efficiency, has evolved into a structure that misallocates liability, violates due process, and undermines both constitutional and Sharia principles of justice. The e-challan system, operational across provinces such as Pun…